ILOGIC TECHNOLOGIES ORACLE FAQs : 1. WHAT IS DATA OR INFORMATION? 2. WHAT IS DATABASE? 3. WHAT IS A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DBMS) PACKAGE?

4. WHEN CAN WE SAY A DBMS PACKAGE AS RDBMS? 5. WHAT IS ORDBMS? 6. NAME SOME CODD'S RULES. 7. WHAT ARE HIERARCHICAL,NETWORK, AND RELATIONAL DATABASE MODELS? 8. WHAT IS DATA MODELING? 9. DEFINE ENTITY,ATTRIBUTE AND RELATIONSHIP. 10. WHAT IS ER-MODELING? 11. WHAT IS NORMALIZATION? 12. WHAT ARE VARIOUS NORMAL FORMS OF DATA? 13. WHAT IS DENORMALIZATION? 14. WHAT ARE 1-TIER,2-TIER,3-TIER OR N-TIER DATABASE ARCHITECTURES? 15. WHAT IS A TABLE,COLUMN, AND RECORD? 16. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE AND A NON-PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE? 17. WHAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE "SQL" IS? 18. CLASSIFICATION OF SQL COMMANDS? 19. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DDL AND DML COMMANDS? 20. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRANSACTION AND A QUERY? 21. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUNCATE AND DELETE COMMANDS? 22. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UPDATE AND ALTER COMMANDS? 23. WHAT ARE COMMANDS OF TCL CATEGORY? 24. WHICH IS AN EFFICIENT COMMAND - TRUNCATE OR DELETE ? WHY ? 25. WHAT ARE RULES FOR NAMING A TABLE OR COLUMN? 26. HOW MANY COLUMNS CAN A TABLE HAVE? 27. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT DATATYPES SUPPORTED BY SQL? 28. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LONG AND LOB DATATYPES? 29. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHAR AND VARCHAR2 DATATYPES? 30. HOW MUCH MEMORY IS ALLOCATED FOR DATE DATATYPE? WHAT IS DEFAULT DATE FORMAT IN ORACLE? 31. WHAT IS RANGE FOR EACH DATATYPE OF SQL? 32. HOW TO RENAME A COLUMN? 33. HOW TO DECREASE SIZE OR CHANGE DATATYPE OF A COLUMN? 34. WHAT IS A CONSTRAINT? WHAT ARE ITS VARIOUS LEVELS? 35. LIST OUT ALL THE CONSTRAINTS SUPPORTED BY SQL. 36. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNIQUE+NOT NULL AND PRIMARY KEY?

37. WHAT IS A COMPOSITE PRIMARY KEY? 38. WHAT IS A CANDIDATE COLUMN? HOW MANY CANDIDATE COLUMNS CAN BE POSSIBLE PER COMPOSITE PRIMARY KEY? 39. HOW TO DEFINE A NULL VALUE? 40. WHAT IS NULL? A CONSTRAINT OR DEFAULT VALUE ? 41. WHAT IS DEFAULT VALUE FOR EVERY COLUMN OF A TABLE? 42. WHAT IS CREATED IMPLICITLY FOR EVERY UNIQUE AND PRIMARY KEY COLUMNS? 43. WHAT ARE LIMITATIONS OF CHECK CONSTRAINT? 44. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REFERENCES AND FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINT? 45. WHAT IS "ON DELETE CASCADE" ? 46. WHAT IS PARENT-CHILD OR MASTER-DETAIL RELATIONSHIP? 47. HOW TO DROP A PARENT TABLE WHEN ITS CHILD TABLE EXISTS? 48. IS ORACLE CASE SENSITIVE? 49. HOW ORACLE IDENTIFIES EACH RECORD OF TABLE UNIQUELY? 50. WHAT IS A PSEUDO-COLUMN? NAME SOME PSEUDO-COLUMNS OF ORACLE? 51. WHAT FOR "ORDER BY" CLAUSE FOR A QUERY? 52. WHAT IS "GROUP BY" QUERIES? 53. NAME SOME AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS OF SQL? 54. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COUNT( ),COUNT( * ) FUNCTIONS? 55. WHAT FOR ROLLUP AND CUBE OPERATORS ARE? 56. WHAT IS A SUB-QUERY? 57. WHAT ARE SQL OPERATORS? 58. EXPLAIN "ANY","SOME","ALL","EXISTS" OPERATORS? 59. WHAT IS A CORELATED SUB QUERY, HOW IT IS DIFFERENT FROM A NORMAL SUB QUERY? 60. WHAT IS A JOIN ? TYPES OF JOINS? 61. WHAT ARE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR AN EQUI-JOIN? 62. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEFT, RIGHT OUTER JOIN? 63. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EQUI AND SELF JOINS? 64. WHAT ARE "SET" OPERATORS? 65. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "UNION" AND "UNION ALL" OPERATORS? 66. NAME SOME NUMBER,CHARACTER,DATE,CONVERSION,OTHER FUNCTIONS. 67. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAX( ) AND GREATEST( ) FUNCTIONS? 68. WHAT FOR NVL( ) FUNCTION IS? 69. WHAT FOR DECODE( ) FUNCTION IS? 70. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRANSLATE( ) AND REPLACE( ) FUNCTIONS? 71. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUBSTR( ) AND INSTR( ) FUNCTIONS? 72. WHAT IS A JULIAN DAY NUMBER? 73. HOW TO DISPLAY TIME FROM A DATE DATA?

74. HOW TO INSERT DATE AND TIME INTO A DATE COLUMN? 75. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TO_DATE( ) AND TO_CHAR( ) CONVERSION FUNCTIONS? 76. WHAT IS A VIEW? HOW IT IS DIFFERENT FROM A TABLE? 77. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIMPLE AND COMPLEX VIEWS? 78. WHAT IS AN INLINE VIEW? 79. HOW TO UPDATE A COMPLEX VIEW? 80. WHAT FOR "WITH CHECK OPTION" FOR A VIEW? 81. WHAT IS AN INDEX? ADVANTAGE OF AN INDEX 82. WHAT IS A SEQUENCE? PSEUDO-COLUMNS ASSOCIATED WITH SEQUENCE? 83. WHAT IS A CLUSTER? WHEN TO USE A CLUSTER? HOW TO DROP A CLUSTER WHEN CLUSTERED TABLE EXISTS? 84. WHAT IS A SNAPSHOT OR MATERIALIZED VIEW? 85. WHAT IS A SYNONYM? 86. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SYNONYM? 87. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "SQL" AND "SQL*PLUS" COMMANDS? 88. NAME SOME SQL*PLUS COMMANDS? 89. WHAT ARE "SQL*PLUS REPORTING" COMMANDS? 90. WHAT ARE SYSTEM AND OBJECT PRIVILEGES? 91. WHAT FOR DCL COMMANDS ARE? 92. WHAT FOR GRANT COMMAND WITH "WITH GRANT OPTION"? 93. HOW TO CHANGE PASSWORD OF A USER? 94. WHAT IS A SCHEMA AND SCHEMA OBJECTS? 95. HOW TO STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN ORACLE DATABASE? 96. WHAT IS A SESSION? 97. WHAT IS A CLIENT PROCESS? WHAT IS A SERVER PROCESS? 98. HOW TO MAKE EVERY DML OPERATION AS AUTO COMMIT? 99. HOW TO DISPLAY DATA PAGE WISE IN SQL? 100. HOW TO CHANGE LINE SIZE,PAGE SIZE AND SQL PROMPT? 101. HOW PL/SQL IS DIFFERENT FROM SQL? 102. WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE OF PL/SQL? 103. WHAT IS A PL/SQL BLOCK? 104. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PL/SQL BLOCKS? 105. WHAT ARE COMPOSITE DATA TYPES? 106. WHAT IS SCOPE OF A VARIABLE IN PL/SQL BLOCK? 107. WHAT IS A NESTED BLOCK? 108. WHAT IS A PL/SQL ENGINE? 109. WHAT IS DEFAULT VALUE FOR A NUMERIC PL/SQL VARIABLE? 110. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIMPLE LOOP AND A FOR LOOP? 111. WHAT IS A CURSOR? STEPS TO USE A CURSOR? 112. HOW MANY TYPES OF CURSORS ARE SUPPORTED BY ORACLE? 113. WHAT IS A CURSOR FOR LOOP? 114. WHAT ARE CURSOR ATTRIBUTES?

115. WHAT IS USE OF CURSOR WITH "FOR UPDATE OF" CLAUSE? 116. WHAT IS AN EXCEPTION? HOW IT IS DIFFERENT FROM ERROR? 117. NAME SOME BUILT-IN EXCEPTIONS. 118. HOW TO CREATE A USER-DEFINED EXCEPTION? 119. WHAT IS "OTHERS" EXCEPTION? 120. WHAT IS SCOPE OF EXCEPTION HANDLING IN NESTED BLOCKS? 121. WHAT IS A SUB-PROGRAM? 122. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUB-PROGRAMS? 123. HOW A PROCEDURE IS DIFFERENT FROM A FUNCTION? 124. WHAT ARE TYPES OF PARAMETERS THAT CAN BE PASSED TO FUNCTION OR PROCEDURE? 125. WHAT IS "IN OUT" PARAMETER? 126. DOES ORACLE SUPPORTS PROCEDURE OVERLOADING? 127. WHAT IS A PACKAGE AND PACKAGE BODY? 128. WHAT IS ADVANTAGE OF PACKAGE OVER PROCEDURE OR FUNCTION? 129. IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A PROCEDURE AND A FUNCTION WITH THE SAME NAME? 130. DOES ORACLE SUPPORTS RECURSIVE FUNCTION CALLS? 131. WHAT IS A TRIGGER? HOW IT IS DIFFERENT FROM A PROCEDURE? 132. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRIGGER AND A CONSTRAINT? 133. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT EVENTS FOR A TRIGGER AND THEIR SCOPES? 134. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TABLE LEVEL AND ROW LEVEL TRIGGERS? 135. WHAT ARE AUTONOMOUS TRIGGERS? 136. WHAT IS AN "INSTEAD OF" TRIGGER? 137. HOW MANY TRIGGERS CAN BE CONFIGURED ON A TABLE AND VIEW? 138. WHAT IS "TABLE MUTATING" ERROR? HOW TO SOLVE IT? 139. WHEN TO USE ":NEW" AND ":OLD" SPECIFIERS? 140. WHAT IS A CONDITIONAL TRIGGER? 141. HOW TO CREATE A USER-DEFINED VARIABLE IN PL/SQL? 142. HOW TO CREATE AN ARRAY VARIABLE IN PL/SQL? 143. HOW TO MAKE A USER-DEFINED DATA TYPE GLOBAL IN PL/SQL? 144. HOW TO CREATE AN OBJECT IN ORACLE? 145. WHAT IS A TRANSIENT AND PERSISTENT OBJECT? 146. WHAT IS A COLUMN OBJECT AND TABLE OBJECT? 147. HOW TO GRANT PERMISSION ON AN OBJECT TO OTHER USER? 148. WHAT IS A COLLECTION OF ORACLE? 149. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VARRAY AND NESTED TABLE? 150. HOW TO MODIFY CONTENTS OF A VARRAY IN ORACLE? 151. WHAT IS USE OF "THE" OPERATOR FOR NESTED TABLE? 152. WHICH PACKAGE IS USED FOR FILE INPUT/OUTPUT IN ORACLE? 153. NAME SOME METHODS AND PROCEDURES OF FILE I/O PACKAGE? 154. WHAT IS SQLJ? HOW IT IS DIFFERENT FROM JDBC CONNECTIVITY? 155. WHAT IS AN ITERATOR? TYPES OF ITERATORS? 156. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT STEPS TO WRITE A DYNAMIC SQL PROGRAM? 157. WHAT IS TABLE PARTITIONING AND INDEX PARTITIONING?

158. WHAT IS PARALLEL PROCESSING? 159. WHAT IS PHYSICAL MEMORY STRUCTURE OF ORACLE? 160. WHAT IS LOGICAL MEMORY STRUCTURE OF ORACLE? 161. WHAT IS SGA? 162. WHAT IS PGA? 163. WHAT IS AN ORACLE INSTANCE? 164. WHAT ARE DIFFERENT ORACLE PROCESSES? 165. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PMON AND SMON? 166. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATABASE AND TABLESPACE? 167. WHAT IS JOB OF DATABASE WRITER (DBWR) PROCESS? 168. WHAT IS JOB OF LOG WRITER (LGWR) PROCESS? 169. WHAT IS RECOVERER? 170. WHAT IS ARCHIVER? 171. WHAT IS A STORED QUERY? 172. WHAT IS USER PROCESS AND SERVER PROCESS? 173. WHAT IS A SELF REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY? 174. WHAT IS A "RAISE" STATEMENT? 175. WHAT IS ROWID? HOW IT IS DIFFERENT FROM ROWNUM?